Jean GIONO, Pierre FONTEINAS
Fragments d'un paradis
G. Dechalotte|Paris 1948|22.50 x 28.50 cm|relié
First edition illustrated with 12 original compositions outside the text by Pierre Fonteinas colored by stencil, one of 839 numbered copies on B.F.K. de Rives paper.
Half blue morocco binding with corners, spine lightly darkened with four raised bands decorated with a red mosaic morocco piece representing a wave emerging from gilt wavelets rising up to gilt stars, gilt fillets on the marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns of another marbled paper, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed P. Nichon.
The work is also illustrated with 8 initial letters and 1 tailpiece by Pierre Fonteinas.
Handsome copy.
Half blue morocco binding with corners, spine lightly darkened with four raised bands decorated with a red mosaic morocco piece representing a wave emerging from gilt wavelets rising up to gilt stars, gilt fillets on the marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns of another marbled paper, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed P. Nichon.
The work is also illustrated with 8 initial letters and 1 tailpiece by Pierre Fonteinas.
Handsome copy.
€500